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" The miniskirt caused an extraordinarily powerful reaction. There were the people who hated it. "

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" Let me give you an idea of Fifties Britain. The war had ended ten years before, and most people had returned to their gardens and allotments hoping life would revert to how it was before the hostilities. "

" I used to start re-arranging my school uniform, hitching up my skirt to be more exciting-looking. "

" I think to myself, 'You lucky woman - how did you have all this fun?' "

" Fashion is a tool... to compete in life outside the home. People like you better, without knowing why, because people always react well to a person they like the looks of. "

" I remember one day, when things were going frightfully well, I went to buy myself a really smashing car. I asked them to show me a Porsche with an automatic gearbox, and the salesman called over all the other salesmen, and they stood around absolutely roaring with laughter. "

" As well as being a creative genius, Vidal Sassoon was a formative figure of the Sixties. Along with the Pill and the mini-skirt, his influence was truly liberating. "

" In the first half of the 20th century, fashion was simply not a very English thing to do. "

" The whole 1960s thing was a ten-year running party, which was lovely. It started at the end of the 1950s and sort of faded a bit when it became muddled with flower power. It was marvelous. "

" I liked masculine fabrics: Prince of Wales checks, city pinstripes, and flannels - worn with black tights, flattish shoes. "

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" Of course, I remember when everybody was thin. It wasn't until I went to America in the Sixties that I saw anyone who wasn't skinny thin. "

" I divide my time between all the mud and open space in Surrey and the social life and work in London, particularly Chelsea, which still has the same village feel that it had in the swinging Sixties. "

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" I always designed clothes from a very young age because I didn't like the way they were. They were paralyzing; they were stilted. "

" Fashion is a very ongoing, renewing thing, about change and reaching for the next thing. You are permanently dissatisfied, and it's always got to get better. "

" I liked my skirts short because I wanted to run and catch the bus to get to work. "

" Risk it; go for it. Life always gives you another chance, another go at it. It's very important to take enormous risks. "

" For one thing, I am still working as an adviser on fashion, design and colour and stuff. "

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